Sleeping Grey Wolf

My “Winter in Yellowstone” photography workshop starts today. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana where I photographed this sleeping Grey Wolf. This is a great place to see Grizzly Bears and Gray Wolfs in a protected environment.

The Center was opened in 1993 with three bears as the Grizzly Discovery Center. It was intended as a sanctuary for bears that were removed from the wild because they had become too familiar or aggressive with people. In 1995, the G.D.C was sold to a New York-based organization. A wolf exhibit and ten captive-born wolves were added to the center in 1996. In 2002, the center was renamed “Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center,” I highly recommend visiting the Center if you happen to be in the area.

Sleeping Grey Wolf

This image was taken with my Canon EOS 7D Mark II using my Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 II Lens set on 248 mm. The camera was set on Aperture Priority mode with the aperture set at f/8, shutter speed at 1/1000th of a second and the ISO set at 400. I used a tripod for support. This is a single image processed in Lightroom then finalized in Photoshop using Color Efex Pro.